I should note that power is out where I am at because of the severe storms that ripped through Michigan early Friday morning. There was some exterior damage, the garage door was blown out, and a truck camper was blown over into the yard. I have a generator running. My access will be spotty until this changes.

So pretty close to equidistant from three of the lakes? So you can get weather from any of those three?

There is a large outdoor clock in downtown Eaton Rapids that I recognized in a newspaper article. It turns out that somebody was working out the spot in Michigan that was furthest away from any of the Great Lakes, and that street corner appeared to be it.

Yes, I added the Net Neutrality pop-up. It will appear once per device you load this site on. I hope you will make it known to your representatives that we need Net Neutrality and the FCC to keep -- and enforce -- Title II regulations on ISPs.

I don't know where else I might turn to ask for help. I have been using the Albasani news server for many years without any problems whatsoever - but now I am unable to use it, and cant understand why. Pinging works ok.

I delete the old Albasani account from Outlook Express, create a news Albasani news account, add the newsgroup talk.origins, and expect things to start working again - but all I get is a message that connecting to the server fails.

I haven't tried to see if anything of the old account has been retained and is causing the problem yet, but will check it out.